CashMoneySoviet: Eatin' meat much or are you an instant vegetarian after The Jungle?

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08-06-2003, 11:31 PM

CashMoneySoviet

Although that book was very disgusting, for those who don't know, it is about the horrors of the Chicago meat industry before the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. I am still eating meat though

08-06-2003, 11:50 PM

phat32

Shogun, James Clavell

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

The Family, Mario Puzo

John Adams, David McCullough

Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose

The Cold Six Thousand, James Ellroy

The Empty Chair, Jeffery Deaver

The Vanished Man, Jeffery Deaver

Ties That Bind, Phillip Margolin

Star Trek: New Frontier, Peter David

Of those books, I would consider the Margolin, Deaver and Puzo books "fun beach books", and whereas in the past, I would have been done with them in a day or two, this time, I'm not particularly absorbed by any of them.

Strangely, I'm most taken with the Bryson and Clavell books.

The McCullough, Ambrose and Ellroy are all "historical fiction/non-fiction" and have places of average interest in my list.

Yes, I'm reading them all at the same time. I can't stand not having something around to read when I just want to pick something up to read.